Am I a Slacker? Oh Yes

I have a pretty serious stubborn streak. For example, I refused to read Harry Potter until about Book Four: The Goblet of Fire purely because I hated all the people I saw reading Harry Potter - on the el, on the street, in Starbucks, on the beach - blech, blech, blech. I am not a lemming.

Then I stopped being a pretentious snob and actually picked it up, reading Harry Potter in secret.... and I LOVED it!! So good, and I was so mad at myself for being ridiculously stubborn.

However, this does not mean that I learned from my Harry Potter experience. Still today, if any particular event or thing is super-popular, I refuse to participate, often to my own detriment. I still can't bring myself to read The Time-Travellers Wife, for that very reason. Past TTW readers have told me how they cried their eyes out at the end and I really should read it... ... ... That is about the worst strategy to get me to read a book, seriously.

Wedding planning is a bit like that... In wedding planning, I am reading all the blogs, websites to help me come up with ideas. However, all it does is make we want to watch The Wire (Omar!!!) or doodle or blog instead of doing what I should be doing... like find a frakking dress to get married in.

All the other nameless brides are buying damask in bulk (the sheer popularity of damask has successfully nixed itself from my wedding, even though, by itself, damask is a perfectly pleasing pattern, seriously - I am just stubborn.) They are industriously creating OOT bags (5 points to the first chick who can decipher that code!) or making little patterned cocktail napkins for their open bar. (Meanwhile I am just planning for a "Signature Cocktail Design Day," which will involve my dear friend T-Awesome and I concocting drinks in my kitchen and hoping we can remember what we dreamed up the next day...no cocktail umbrellas!)

(sigh)

I guess I am lazy. I think I am also rebelling against the fact that I really don't think it should take a whole freakin' year to plan an event that will last approximately 7 hours, BUT I guess it really does take that long. Since it will take me about two entire months to construct 140 invitations.... I probably did it to myself. :)

No lie, I love to craft, and planning a wedding is virtually a crafting free-for-all, but sometimes I feel silly about it, so I play hooky from my bride-ly duties.

Back to The Wire and blogging while my invitation mock-up stares me down from the corner!!!

-My name is Miss Snapdragon, and I am a slacker.